Regional convergence of growth, inequality and poverty in India-An empirical study

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1054-1060

  Das, Samarjit ^a   Sinha, Gouranga ^b   Mitra, Tushar K ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

Common factor; Conditional convergence; Cross co integration; Cross sectional dependence; Panel unit root tests; Regional disparities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955051155     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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